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Artist: Frida Kahlo - Paul Ferguson - 09-19-2025
"Kahlo was a student of metaphysics and revered alchemy, the transformation of matter. She was well aware of symbolism and how it could stir the masses. Her peasant blouse emphasized her leftist leanings as a woman of the people as well as her purity as a young bride. She identified as a mestiza who was proud of her country's revolutionary ideals. The rebozo conveyed allegiance to indigenous women throughout Mexico. In her marriage dress and in the first portrait she painted as a married woman, Self Portrait, Time Flies, she laid out an intricate mythic framework of her desired alchemical union with [Diego] Rivera. Rivera came to mysticism through his father, a Freemason and Rosicrucian. Kahlo came to it through her studies in all schools of philosophy at Prepa and through books shared by friends. Metaphysics was at its height worldwide in the 1920s and 30s and the inquiring mind of an intelligent teen was like a sponge in water. Frida soaked it up and went on to use many symbolic principles in her paintings and retablos."
https://mexicosoul.substack.com/p/how-san-francisco-ignited-the-right
Wikiart here:
https://www.wikiart.org/en/frida-kahlo
Video: animated paintings here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjgXwJ_kmpo
Video: 30 most famous paintings here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjjkMiwxQjs&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fridakahlo.org%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE
Astrological details here:
https://www.globalwoman.com/frida-kahlo-astrology-art-and-life/